Button-making machine.



B. CLAY.

BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED FEB-11, 1914.

1,105,757. Patented Aug-4, 1914.

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B. CLAY.

BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED rnB.11, 1914.

1,105,757. Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO, PHOTO-LITHO. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNTTE STATES PATENT UFFTCE.

BOSTON CLAY, OFMUSGATINE, IOWA, ASSIGrNOR 'I'O JAMES T. SISSEL, 0F MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA.

BUTTON-MAKING .MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au. 4, 1914.

Application filed February 11, 1914. Serial No. 818,139.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BOSTON CLAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mus- :atme, inthe county of Muscatine and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ButtonMaking Maand has for its primary object the provision of such a machine so constructed that a plurallty of button blanks may be simultaneously cut, so that a larger output of worlr with relation to theamount of labor expended will be assured.

A more specific object of the invention resides in the provision of such a machine which will cut a plurality of buttons independently and simultaneously if desired and deliver them in separate receptacles so that blanks formed of different materials may be cut at the same time by the machine, or so that the blanks of different sizes may be cut, the machine being so constructed that all of the cutting elementsmay discharge into the same receptacle, or into different receptacles.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of means wherebythe cutting elements may be driven without interferine with the discharge of cut blanks from I h i said elements.

A still further object of the inventionresides in the provision of such a machine which is compact in form, which may be. asily operated and whlch 1sl of such structure that it may be readily manufactured or assembled.

With these and other objects and advan tages invlew, the nvention resides more.

particularly in the novel combination, formation and arrangement of parts more fully hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Reference is had .to the accompanying drawings, wherein similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts? throughout the several views, and in which Figure lis a side elevation of the im-i proved buttonblank cutting machine. Fig

2 is a top plan view with the cover removed.

Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional View through the machine. Fig. 4:

accminpanying drawings, the preferred embodiment of the machine is shown as including a base portion 5 at one end of which is mounted a standard 6 earryingthe tail stock? and at the other end port-ion of wlueh 1s mountedthe head 8 of the machine.

The head portion of the machine comprises a casing including inner and outer walls 9 and 10 respectively, and side walls 11. The rotary cutting elements of the machine comprise a main drive cylinder 12 and a plurality of driven cylinders 13, these cylinders beingjournaled in the wall 9. Each of the cylinders is provided witha longitu- (linal bore 14; which gradually increases in diameter toward the outer end. of the cylin dcr. Disposed in the inner end of each of the bores is a tubular saw section 15. Thus when the cylinders are rotated, each saw section is adapted to cut circular blanks and these blanks are projected into the bore 14: and are moved outwardly by each successive blank which is cut and projected into the bore until they drop from the outer ends of the bore into thereceiving means to be described.

It has been said that the cylinders are journaled in: the inner wall 9. Themain drive cylinder is journaled in a bore 16 disposed in this wall adjacent its top and central of its sides. The other rollers 13 are provided with reduced portions 17 which are gournallyseated in transverse semi-circular grooves 18 formed in the top face of the wall and so positioned that the portions of the rollers 13 outwardly of the wall rest upon the drive roller 12.. The periphery of the drive roller and the peripheries of the driven rollers inwardly of the wall 9 are provided with geared teeth 19 whereby the rollers 13 will be rotated upon rotation of the roller 12. To prevent these rollers from riding upwardly and possibly becoming displaced from their ournaled grooves 18,

when they are rotated, and at the same time to provide a protection forthe interior of the head casing, a cover 20 is pivoted to one of the sidewalls 11 and is provided with depending side flanges' 9.1,the inne'rof which is provided with transverse grooves 22 em-' bracing the upper {portions of the reduced section 17 of the driving cylinder 12. cover is adapted to be held in a closed position by connecting elements 23'ofa latch secured to the other side wall 11 and to the For rotating the drive cylinder in such -manner -as not to interfere with the discharge of blanks there.

free edge of the cover.

from, a shaft 2a is journaled in the wall in'radial alineinent with the cylinder. The

shaft terminates short of theend of the cylblanks may inder and ,extending toward the cylinder from the adjacent end of the shaft are a plurality of .spaced bowed arms-25 which have their otherwise free ends attached to a: sleeve member 26 which is threaded on that portion of the cylinder which extends inwardly of the wall9. Thusthe button be projected through the cyline der and into thecompartment formed by the ibowed arms 25, from whence'they will drop between the, arms intov a suitable chute member 27. The shaftQL of the 'wall 10 carries a beltpulley 28 whereby it"maybe rotated.

It is seen thatthe chute member 27 extends a substantial distance on each side of the arms 25. Thus inthe operation of'the three cylinders the-blanks from all of them would fall into the chute 27. To prevent this when desired, detachable chute members 29 areprovided for the discharge ends of'the driven cylinders 13 and these chutes, r extend on each side of thechute 27. It will be understoodthat there will be considerable vibrationof the machine during this operationand this vibration will materially aid in moving the blanks along the cylinder bores and discharging them'therefro-m. It is also noted'that-the driven cylinders 13;

may be removed by lifting the cover and then merely liftingthe cylinders from their positions. By this construction it is seen that cylinders adapted'to cut buttons of'va rious sizes may be substituted as desired.

The tail stock 7 isprovided with a plurality-of bores in which are slidably mounted integrally threaded sleeves 30 carrying at; their inner en'ds'the heads 31 on whichare adapted to be positioned the material'from which the blanks are cut, upon advancing; the retracting sleeves, the tailstock is pro vided with a rearward extension 32 termi, nating in a vertical portion 33 disposed rearwardly of the sleeves 30 and having journaled therein feed screws 34 extending into andengaging thethreaded peripheries of the sleeves 30 whereby they may be advanced or retracted. 'It'is noted that the sleeves are held against rotation by means of the projections 35 carried by the tail stock and engaging in longitudinal grooves 26 formed in the outer peripheiies of the sleeves. In the above description there has provided blanks simultaneously and which maybe been'set forth the means whereby'each of "the cylinders may have their working material advanced independently.

From the foregoing it will be noted that an exceedingly simple machine has been which will .cut a plurality of by the support and having portions thereof engaging the first member, intermeshing gears formed on'theengaging portions of the members, and means'forrotating the first mentioned saw carryingmember'.

2. In a blank cutting machine, the com bination with a support, of a tubular saw carrying member journaled therein, ay-plurality of tubular saw"carrying members journally mounted on the support and engaging the first mentioned "member to be rotated thereby, a cover hinged to."thegsupport and engaging the last mentioned saw carrying members ,to hold "them in'rela'tion to the first mentioned ,member, and means for rotating the firstmentioned'member,

3. A blank cuttingmaChine comprising-a support, a tubular saw carrying member j ournally carried by the support,'a plurality of saw carrying members also carried" by' the support, intermeshinggears formed on the'engaging portions ofthejmfembers, a

drive shaft disposed in axial alinement'with I the first-mentioned member and terminating short of one end of sald member, and; means connecting the shaft and the first-mentioned.

member to drive said-member and at the same time to. permit the blanks to, be discharged from the inner-end of saidmember..

4. A button making machine comprising a support, a tubular saw carryinglmember' journaled therein, ashaft in axial alinement with sald member, a sleeve forme'd'at the end of said shaft adjacent said member,

said sleeverbein'g'threaded on the saw carrying member, and the shaft'being formed with a skeleton section: adjacent. the sleeve whereby the blanks projected through the bore of'thetubular saw carrying member thereof.

5. A blank cuttingmachine comprising ja casmg, a plurality of'tubula'rsa'w members journally carried on one wall thereof, a

shaft jo'urnaled in thejopposite wall ofthe casing in. axial alinement with one of said members, a plurality of spacedbowed arms "will fall outwardly through the interstices extending from said shaft toward one of said members, a sleeve formed at the terminals of said arms for engagement With the member and in alinement therewith, and a chute disposed under the arms and under the discharge ends of the other tubular members.

6. A blank cutting machine comprising a vertical casing, a tubular saw carrying member journaled in the upper NVftll of the easing, the top edge of said wall being provided with transverse bearing grooves, tubular saw carrying members having reduced sections seated in said grooves, intermeshing gears carried by all of the tubular members, means for rotating the first named member, and a cover for the casing engaging the reduced portions of the second named tubular members to hold them against displacement.

7. Ablank cutting machine comprising a casing,a plurality of tubular saw carrying copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

members journally carried by one wall of the casing, a shaft journaled in the opposite wall of the casing in axial alinement with one of the said members, a plurality of spaced bowed arms extending irom the adjacent end of the shaft, a sleeve carried by said arms and engaging the member in alinement therewith to rotate the same, a chute disposed under the arms and also disposed under the discharge ends of the other tubular members, and a plurality of detachable chute members adapted to be secured to said other tubular members and to extend at the sides of the first mentioned chute member.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BOSTON CLAY.

WVitnesses:

E. E. SALISBURY, OHAs. P. I-LmLnY.

Washington, D. G. 

